Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. and Windows Script Host Object Model (wshom).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. The post Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. “ Illicit access to compromised or backdoored sites and databases is used by criminals for a number of activities, ranging from spam campaigns, to fraud, or cryptocurrency mining.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. .” The post Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

Researchers discovered a new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, dubbed Panchan, targeting Linux servers in the education sector since March 2022. Akamai security researchers discovered a new Golang-based P2P Botnet, tracked as Panchan, that is targeting Linux servers that has been active since March 2022. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2019

Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the popular WordPress plugin Social Warfare. Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the Social Warfare plugin to take control over WordPress websites using it. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. The post FritzFrog cryptocurrency P2P botnet targets Linux servers over SSH appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FritzFrog).

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Other methods.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

“It’s run by a fraud ring of cryptocurrency scammers who mine dating apps and other social media for victims and the scam is becoming alarmingly popular.” ” West said pig butchering victims are often quite sophisticated and educated people.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Types of Malware Delivered The ClickFix campaigns are not just a nuisance; they can lead to severe security breaches. Matanbuchus and XMRig: Used for cryptocurrency mining, these malware strains can slow down systems while surreptitiously utilizing computing resources.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The sharp increase in ransomware attacks can be attributed to many reasons, from the low level of cyber hygiene of some enterprises to insufficient training and education of employees and patch management issues, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently. Educators can provide a more valuable learning experience and environment for students. Transforming Industries with Data Intelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Attackers can compromise credentials because of extensive user password problems throughout most organizations; however, a number of security solutions provide credentials protection for both basic and advanced needs. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The data included official government ID numbers, phone numbers, family records, birthdates, death dates (where applicable), marriage dates, education histories, and work records. It contained 20.8 million records, well over the country’s current population of 16 million.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Enabling true transformation You’re on the lookout for adoption of industry best practices along with the capabilities of process mining and process discovery to both simplify and standardize the process flows. From a business and IT perspective, this helps in cycle time and eventually price per business object.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Open-source AI projects and libraries, freely available on platforms like GitHub, fuel digital innovation in industries like healthcare, finance and education. The readily available nature of open-source AI also raises security concerns; malicious actors could leverage the same tools to manipulate outcomes or create harmful content.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. Remote access trojans (RATs): RATs can be used to remotely gain control of a machine, placing the user’s privacy and security at risk.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 10, 2024

Threats like DarkGate’s switch to AutoHotkey, the Muhstik botnet’s Apache RocketMQ exploits, and Chinese hackers targeting ThinkPHP applications also showed the significance of proactive security. Quickly fix, upgrade, and secure your systems to maintain resilience against these increasing threats. 17)C0 for NAS326 and 5.21(ABAG.14)C0

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is relatively new. Easterly was appointed by Congress a few weeks ago.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks? and a green padlock - must mean it's secure! ?? And yes, we all know that the padlock never meant the site wasn't going to be nasty, but we also know the history with the way the masses have been educated about it and the assumptions they consequently draw.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

But I don't think an attack of such magnitude as the one identified by security researchers at Internet security monitoring vendor Bolster. This latest impersonation campaign makes the case for ensuring users are vigilant when interacting with the web – something accomplished through continual Security Awareness Training.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 7, 2022

Thales asked six women in the cybersecurity industry to provide their opinions on how business can build an inclusive work culture and what this means for security leaders around the world. Winnie Wong , APAC Regional & Channel Marketing for Data Security products at Thales. “An Let’s hear what they have to say.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I regret that I had to learn French in high school. We lost money on shares.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

grade rosters) that might appear within certain categories, to mine applicable data. While safety and security record categories appeared underrepresented for such combustible record types (missing from 42% of the schedules), HR/personnel records are covered more consistently in 88% of the schedules.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. IT governance and security. Riskonnect.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. IT governance and security. Riskonnect.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We were able to scan one of the variants and we found out that the education sector was pretty overly represented in the victims. Vamosi: When you think about it, it's not too surprising that education is so high up there. Vamosi: But European education systems were not the only victims of capitalists.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I started out by talking about the value of education ; let's do a better job of stopping these incidents from occurring in the first place by avoiding well-known coding and configuration flaws. Today's post extends on yesterday's but I wanted to break it out into a discrete piece and come at it from a different angle. across the internet.

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